Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

by Douglas Adams (Author), Douglas Adams (Author), Douglas Adams (Author), Simon Brett (Introduction)

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2016
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In Life, the Universe and Everything, the third title in Douglas Adams' blockbusting sci-fi comedy series, Arthur Dent finds himself enlisted to prevent a galactic war.
Following a number of stunning catastrophes, which have involved him being alternately blown up and insulted in ever stranger regions of the Galaxy, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot get possibly worse, they suddenly do. An eddy in the space-time continuum lands him, Ford Prefect, and their flying sofa in the middle of the cricket ground at Lord's, just two days before the world is due to be destroyed by the Vogons.
Escaping the end of the world for a second time, Arthur, Ford, and their old friend Slartibartfast embark (reluctantly) on a mission to save the whole galaxy from fanatical robots. Not bad for a man in his dressing gown . . .
With exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction by Simon Brett.

Synopsis

In Life, the Universe and Everything, the third title in Douglas Adams' blockbusting sci-fi comedy series, Arthur Dent finds himself enlisted to prevent a galactic war.

Following a number of stunning catastrophes, which have involved him being alternately blown up and insulted in ever stranger regions of the Galaxy, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot get possibly worse, they suddenly do. An eddy in the space-time continuum lands him, Ford Prefect, and their flying sofa in the middle of the cricket ground at Lord's, just two days before the world is due to be destroyed by the Vogons.

Escaping the end of the world for a second time, Arthur, Ford, and their old friend Slartibartfast embark (reluctantly) on a mission to save the whole galaxy from fanatical robots. Not bad for a man in his dressing gown . . .

With exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction by Simon Brett.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: New Edit/Cover
Publisher: Pan
Published: 08 Sep 2016
ISBN 10: 150980837X
ISBN 13: 9781509808373
Book Overview: Part Three of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy of Five. Featuring additional material from the Adams archives, and an introduction from Simon Brett, producer of the original radio broadcast.

Media Reviews

Really entertaining and fun -- John Cleese
Much funnier than anything John Cleese has written -- Terry Jones
I know for a fact that John Cleese hasn't read it -- Graham Chapman
Who is John Cleese? -- Eric Idle
Really entertaining and fun -- Michael Palin

Author Bio

Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.

In addition to Hitchhiker, He is also the author of the Dirk Gently novels: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul and the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt.